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<h2>political parties appearing in the U.S. Congress</h2>

<h3>Description</h3>

<p>Numeric codes and names of 85 political parties appearing in Poole
and Rosenthal's collection of U.S. Congressional roll calls.
</p>


<h3>Usage</h3>

<pre>data(partycodes)</pre>


<h3>Format</h3>


<ul>
<li><p><code>code</code>integer, numeric code for legislator appearing in Poole and
Rosenthal rollcall data files
</p>
</li>
<li><p><code>party</code>character, name of party
</p>
</li></ul>



<h3>Details</h3>

<p>The function <code>readKH</code> converts the integer codes
into strings, via a table lookup in this data frame.</p>


<h3>Source</h3>

<p>Keith Poole's website: <a href="http://legacy.voteview.com/PARTY3.HTM">http://legacy.voteview.com/PARTY3.HTM</a></p>


<h3>See Also</h3>

<p><code>readKH</code>
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